Ugur, a postgraduate student in the school, will give an additional seminar on the ethics of environmentalism on Wed Jan 12th.

See below for details

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Neil

Philosophy Staff Student Seminar Series

Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

In the 20th century psychoanalysis posed some very significant challenges to the modern western philosophical tradition; especially through its critique of the Enlightenment conception of the ‘rational autonomous subject’. This seminar series will examine the influence of psychoanalytic ideas on the development of 20th century philosophy and the extent to which psychoanalysis still needs to be taken seriously in contemporary forms of philosophical inquiry.

Weds 19th January 2010, room 215: Neil Turnbull - Philosophers and Players: Narcissism as a Theme in Western Philosophy Weds Feb 9th 2010 Patrick O’Connor, room 219 - Desire and Pleasure: The Death of Life in Recent French Thought.Weds Feb 23rd 2010 Frederick Aspbury, room 219 - Hegel meets Freud: The Dialectic of the SubconsciousWeds March 2nd 2010 Ruth Griffin, room 215 - Through the Zizekian Lens Darkly: Lacanian Psycho-analysis and the Philosophy of Film

There will also be an occasional seminar on Weds Jan 12th, 1-3, in 215Ugur Parlar - Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Ethics in 19th and 20th Century Western Thought: From Emerson's and Thoreau's Transcendentalism to Leopold's Land Ethic